Why is the Red Rose Rescue priest facing prison sentences so willing to go to jail for the unborn?
‘Fr. Fidelis is not running from the wolves who are in the DOJ, or the Attorney General’s office of the state of New York,’ fellow Red Rose Rescuer Will Goodman said.Read More
Young African Catholics head to Lisbon for World Youth Day
National youth chaplain in Burkina Faso explains how his Church’s delegation of young people were selected and discusses some of the issues these Catholic teens and young adults face today
Indian PM Modi finally comments on Manipur violence, archbishop says it is ‘too late’ (National Catholic Register)
A recently released viral video showed two Christian women being publicly humiliated and assaulted in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur (map), with the apparent connivance of police.
Pope suppresses 2 Vatican foundations, creates another (CWN)
In a rescript approved on July 3 and issued July 25, Pope Francis suppressed two Vatican foundations, the Good Samaritan Foundation and the Justice and Peace Foundation, and established the Van Thuân Foundation in their place.
Young Hong Kongers on pilgrimage to Rome ahead of World Youth Day
As part of the 2,500 Asian Catholics attending World Youth Day in Lisbon, Hong Kong young people stress the importance of integrating their “small community” into the larger group of Catholic pilgrims embarking on a spiritual journey toward Christ. Read all
St. Anne’s role as mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus was vital to God’s salvific plan
St. Anne furnished the body of her who was to give flesh to the Son of God; she nourished her with milk; she gave to her, who was inundated with floods of divine light, the first practical notions of life.
Celebrating Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus
The July 26 dual liturgical feast of Sts. Joachim and Anne was not on the Catholic calendar until 1969, but the parents of the Virgin Mary have been commemorated down the centuries
Nicaragua freezes fund for retired Catholic priests
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s latest anti-Catholic Church attack will make it impossible for retired priests to receive a monthly pension for their health needs and upkeep
A unique four-year pilgrimage to World Youth Day on a sailboat
Seven young adults have just arrived in Lisbon on “Exultet”, a 44-foot vessel that set sail from Panama at the end of WYD 2019 and made an around-the-world journey to Portugal
New Catholic Charities USA head is laywoman with leadership, philanthropy background (CNA)
Catholic Charities USA, which addresses poverty and provides disaster relief in the United States, has named Kerry Alys Robinson as its next president and CEO. She will succeed Sister Donna Markham, OP.